My daughter is a freshmen and I have asked questions about her strange habits on here before. Everyone pretty much said she’d grow out of it, but she has not. She is a very sweet and fun girl, but she latches onto girls and wants to be like them, talks about them constantly, copies them, gets EXTREMELY nervous around them, and overall is just so out of character around them. When talking about them, she’s starry-eyed; around them, she giggles, blushes and gets overall uncomfortable.
I hate to say it, but her sisters/my daughters agree – it’s embarrassing! I’m also concerned becasue I don’t think this is normal behavior. None of my other daughters went through anything like this. When asked what she likes about them, she can go on for hours! These objects of affection always find her endearing – they are all older girls at her school, but so much more than her role-model. They always try chatting with her and being sweet to her, but recently a client of mine told me that my daughter was a silly mess around her own seventeen year old! It is truly embarrassing at times.
I have no reason to believe that this is sexual confusion issue; she has had boyfriends, and when asked by her sisters, she laughs naturally with them and says of course not; she just ‘thinks they’re so cool’. But it’s more than that, and I don’t know how to help her. Sometimes she gets so worked up with nerves that she makes herself ill. She says it’s worth it. It’s like a drug addiction. What can I possibly do
Excuse, I am not concerned with her being homosexual at all. But as I said, I see how this can sometimes make my daughter upset. And it is embarrassing the reaction she has around them.
